onlooker wrote: we have to now be attuned to whether authorities are calling this an "inspired" attack or an "operational attack". Inspired as in not coordinated or planned with assistance of others, simply autonomously planned and executed. Operational is with coordination and assistance by and with others ie. Terrorist organization."
Newfie wrote:OK, maybe a stupid question but here goes.....
Is there any link/tie/correlation between radical Islam and BLM?
I ask because in Philly you see a lot of black folks wearing Islamic garb.
As I said, maybe a stupid question, I don't know the answer or who to ask.
Anonymous messages threatening the safety of USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) employees and facilities in 5 states, prompted the federal agency to close offices immediately.
USDA spokesman Matthew Herrick said in a statement that the department had received "several anonymous messages" that raised concerns for the safety of USDA employees and facilities.
The closed facilities are in Fort Collins, Colorado; Hamden, Connecticut; Beltsville, Maryland; Raleigh, North Carolina; Kearneysville, West Virginia and Leetown, West Virginia.
They include offices for eight USDA agencies, including the Forest Service and the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Among the sites affected was USDA’s sprawling agricultural research center and library in Beltsville, where employees were informed of the threat Tuesday morning and sent home.
(Interestingly, the main USDA Beltsville Campus map has been degraded and is being actively blocked by Google (Dept of Homeland Security)
In an email to employees, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said USDA is closing the offices “due to the serious nature of these threats.” He did not characterize the threats or say how they were received, but asked employees to be aware of their surroundings and report any suspicious activity.
White House Spokesman Josh Earnest said the Department of Homeland Security is working with USDA “to ensure the safety of their offices and the personnel that work there.”
“Personnel at these locations have been made aware of the threats and will not report to these offices until further notice,” Herrick said.
The Agriculture Department has nearly 100,000 employees spread out across thousands of locations. The closures announced Tuesday are impacting an array of agencies and offices, including the Forest Service, Food Safety Inspection Service and the department’s inspector general.
The FBI discussed possible threats against U.S. agriculture in a 2012 bulletin that stated "terrorists consider America's agriculture and food production tempting targets."
Rather than attacks against specific offices or employees, however, the bulletin focused heavily on contamination of the U.S. food supply through "agroterrorism," which it defined as “the deliberate introduction of an animal or plant disease for the purpose of generating fear, causing economic losses, or undermining social stability."
It noted that U.S. and allied forces discovered al-Qaida training manuals that targeted agriculture in 2002 in Afghanistan.
"If terrorists strive for human deaths, the food production and distribution chain offers a low-tech but effective mechanism for disseminating toxins and bacteria," the bulletin said.
... In West Virginia, Jefferson County Sheriff Pete Dougherty said by telephone that his office was notified of the threat on Monday by a USDA employee in the Kearneysville, WV facility, located in the northeastern part of the state.
"It's a threat to do harm to people at the facility until the police arrive. They were going to break into the building," Dougherty said by telephone.
Peak_Yeast wrote:Uh - I immediately assumed the terrorists was trying to videocam the abusive and horrible factory farming methods...
... As you know, the FBI divides the terrorist threat facing the United States into two broad categories, international and domestic.
During the past several years, however, special interest extremism, as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), and related extremists, has emerged as a serious domestic terrorist threat.
Special interest terrorism differs from traditional right-wing and left-wing terrorism in that extremist special interest groups seek to resolve specific issues (... like abusive and horrible factory farming), rather than effect widespread political change (... like voting for Bernie Sanders).
Such extremists conduct acts of politically motivated violence to force segments of society, including the general public, to change attitudes about issues considered important to the extremists’ causes (... like getting poisoned by Corporate America).
North Carolina State Police just released a WolfAlert regarding an unconfirmed threat to campus.
"Along with individuals at other universities and the USDA, two faculty members at NC State received an email that included a general, unconfirmed threat to campus. NC State Police have determined that several dozen individuals at Virginia Tech University received the exact same email threat yesterday.
The email was sent from at least four separate Google Mail accounts with the subject "Warning," according to a report in Collegiate News at Virginia Tech.
The email said:"I am here to inform that in the next couple of days I will break into the campus and will kill as many people as I can untill the police arrives (sic)."
According to Kelly, the threat was able to be traced back to a location overseas and the two NC State faculty members received the exact same message as those at Virginia Tech.
Virginia Tech Campus Police are investigating, according to the Washington Post. Virginia Tech Campus Police also reported that four other universities received the same email as of Monday afternoon.
ROCKMAN wrote:I recall having our Mobil Oil office in New Orleans closing several times in the mid 70's due to telephine threats.They stopped those evacuations when the guessed they were called in by Mobil employees. LOL. True story. Eventually they even stopped terterlling us when they received a threat. But then one day the building blew up and I was killed. Probably not a true story.
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